OT Re: Sherbet lemons and Pixie Stix (getting OT)

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 12950

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Katie Kearns <katie at v...> wrote:
> At 08:30 PM 2/24/01 +0000, Neil wrote:

> > There's also a sherbet fountain (or liquorice fountain) - a paper
> > tube of sherbet powder with a hollow 'straw' of liquorice stuck
> > in it, through which you suck the powder
> 
> Oh!!! Pixie stix! ;)

Thank you for remembering the name. I can never remember the name
even tho' I immediately saw their image when reading of Neil's 
Licorice Fountains: one-color-striped white paper tubes looking like 
drinking straws with the ends crimped shut. They contain colored 
flavored powdered sugar -- that must be what Neil means by 'sherbet 
powder' (sherbet or sherbert, I can never remember?). There is no 
licorice tube involved and they didn't come in a licorice flavor when 
I was young.